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I have ordered some stuff to make my e46 good looking inside
I think the red/orange lights in the cluster and everything is boring.. SO something need to be done. So i ordered new led for the cluster/climacontrol/cd player and multi wheel. A lot of theese..

a few of theese

I will go crazy soldering every lights inside everything

the finished product will look like this

Can't whait to get started

When i was surfing the internet for some more stash i ordered this altso have someone tested this lights from bimmian ??

I can post some pictures when i'm done with everything. Maybe a week or two

Seriously theres nothing wrong with it. If I see you succeed doing the entire car with this blue led. I'll do the same because in those pictures the thing looks amazing !

Yes its very amazing but i think it would take some time doing this.. taking apart everything. Switches, cluster, steering wheel, cd player, clima control.. mutch disassembly and assembly and some hours of soldering.. What you need most is a hell lot of patience

So here is what i have done today.. i always forget to take pictures.. but here are some. DON'T start on this project unless you have a lot of patience and a feew weeks off work Sorry the bad pictures.. some from the crappy iphone camera. New pictures will come when i'm finished

First i soldered 3mm led in the roof. looks like this.

And then som soldering on the light switch for the headlights. THIS was a project...
SMD leds..

And the push buttons for the fog lights had to be unsoldered. because the LED is in the button.

here is the button unsoldered from the mainboard.

To get out the LED here i had to drill away the old soldering.. i dont think this is usual solder tin.. Nott possible to unsolder. Here is it drilled

new LED soldered ..

And here the finished product

The ashtray in the back of the console

and here the window switches and lock switch with new light

so far so good. this took me about 6 hours. i was wondering to start with the cd player now. but my head says NO

i like it i had to order som other leds for the multifunctional steering wheel. Because they were not plcc-2 leds.. they look like this
they are called 1206 SMD LED's and they are TINY. a really patience work..

How did you change the lock/unlock switch light to blue? What kind of light is it?

The unlock button is a 5mm LED, its the same as the 3mm LED. I don't have any pictures of it. but it is not is wery hard. Just open the switch box. unsolder the 5 mm LED and replace it with a new one

But i was checking out some more switches now. The seat heaters and the DSC switch. I think i have a problem here.. they are so tiny that i can't even see them hope i get the right LED for it when the new ones appear in the mail.